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Ms. Sandy Schmidt seems to beelieve that the prospect of secession should bee taken seriously.

But, of course, such action is not immanent, so we can afford to sit back a bit. Anyway, secession, conceived anew, wouldn’t bee such a horrible thing.

Suppose that the Minnesota congressional district that re-elected Michelle Bachmann seceded. Wouldn’t we welcome the opportunity to wave fond farewell to that district’s citizenry, thus increasing the mean I.Q. of American voters by nearly two points? No need for a civil war in THAT case, Sandy.

Anyway, FOX Entertainment News has continued to cover a real, near-at-hand threat: that of The New Black Panther Party.

I don’t mean to bee a fellow alarmist, but we should bee forewarned. And we should expect protection from Homeland Security and the C.I.A.

"Suppose that the Minnesota congressional district that re-elected Michelle Bachmann seceded. Wouldn’t we welcome the opportunity to wave fond farewell to that district’s citizenry, thus increasing the mean I.Q. of American voters by nearly two points? No need for a civil war in THAT case, Sandy."

Just think if the district that Nancy Pelosi represents were to secede. The I.Q. of the House of Representatives could rise by more than two points. No need for civil war in that case, da burp.

He may not have mentioned the tea party, but he did succeed in name calling which he was whole heartedly against only a few short days ago. Perhaps he is getting old and forgetful as he states to on occasion.

Secession will happen, I think, by some state or group of states in my lifetime. It will only happen when the inevitable financial calamity occurs, or rather the manifestations of it occur-- we have a calamity now, just no one knows it yet.

Secession is a giant step. It would require a new currency, I expect. The seceding faction would require the honorable gesture of taking responsibility for its part of the national debt. I expect this would be necessary even though the US would not pay its obligation for SS and Medicare benefits.

I'd be all for it, assuming I liked the new constitution, which would have to have protections against liberalism creeping back.

I wonder what da beatrice would say about 2 KKK members standing outside a polling place with night sticks. I'd ask but I'm just a silly he claims to ignore. If he answered, it would be next Thursday and I would be unsure of part of his answer and the part I would understand would be dumb and inconsistent.

Gary Patrick - Today at 7:32 AM: "I wonder what da beatrice would say about 2 KKK members standing outside a polling place with night sticks."**********************Probably the same thing da phonious blovious would say about the KKK placing a bounty on the head of a black man suspected of committing a crime similar to the Panther's bounty on George Zimmerman. But hey, in all fairness if Eric Holder can ignore these actions why can't Prof. Phonious Balonious?

"You are as you say, "a silly" and he would not waste his precious time and verbose vocabulary on "a silly"."

Indeed - when he cannot counter the ideas of another commenter, da beep deems you "a silly" and ignores you. Or he refers to you, not by name, but as "a silly" and then distorts your comment in order to be able to counter it.

"It's more like High-end blathering. Or in more simpler terms: High-end BS."

How about high-end bloviating?

I referred to it as "high-end mumbling" to separate it from low-end mumbling practiced by Paine (and his 20 other monikers) since both have virtually the same political and world view and both make spurious claims they then dance away from when challenged.

That makes him da bloviator, da blatherer, da bs'er or, of course, da bee.And that makes me a name caller.I do expect a five to seven paragraph response about this within a weeks time. Please keep it under 1000 words.

Since da bee won't normally respond to us sillies I wonder if he is a member of the echo chamber thumbs down society? He must watch is comments and the responses and feel the need to react one way or another. Or does he just wait for few days and kind of respond then?

"Since da bee won't normally respond to us sillies I wonder if he is a member of the echo chamber thumbs down society?"

He is probably the president emeritus of the Society. Clicking down thumbs on the sillys' comments.

"Or does he just wait for few days and kind of respond then?"

No, the Society has bylaws that require the thumbers to react instantaneously to any comment they cannot formulate a rebuttal comment to. They can't wait until the next day or two days later or a week later.

You know, I've been reading these comments today and they seem heavy on criticism of "the down-thumbers" and for a while I could actually see some of their points. Not all, because as one poster indicated, why comment on something already said? But after reading these infantile remarks regarding Da Bees, why would anyone want to stoop to this childish conversation? Instead, voicing one's disgust with a thumbs down is satisfaction enough. And, if you find yourself on the wrong end of a thumbs up/thumbs down post on a regular basis, that should tell you to perhaps rethink your position or at least, extremism. Or is this what you're looking for - how many thumbs down can you garnish? I think a new game may be in the offering.

da bee - Today at 10:28 AM:"My Dear Upper Hey --I fear that, in your response, you beecome unduly vague at just the wrong time."**************************What a silly! Everyone knows that you are a strong proponent of vagueness but at the "RIGHT" time!

"I did not vote for former President George W. Bush and did not agree with his policies, but I still respected the office of the U.S. presidency. I hope those who favor seceding will do the same. It is time to grow up. The 2012 election is over."

Hopefully Sandy was poo-pooing the talk of secession in 2004 when the Democrats were openly talking about it after Bush junior was reelected. Hopefully she told the Democrats to grow up then too.

Or maybe, despite what she says about Bush and his policies and respecting the office of President, she had no problem with the idea then.

Personally, all the talk about secession is funny to this Libertarian. One of the wings of the Big Government Party wants states they won to secede - this time it is the red ones and in 2004 it was the blue ones.

So Sandy Schmidt thinks that "It is time to grow up". The 2012 election is over. Funny how Sandy forgets after George W Bush was elected to office in 2000, the numerous actors and other people vowing to leave the country if he was elected into office. In case you have short memory Sandy, here it is.

It would appear that drone strikes are acceptable when killing "suspected" terrorists together with any nearby innocent civilians. However, drone strikes are unacceptable when attempting to save the lives of Americans, a la Benghazi.

I'm waiting for Obama to twist and turn about how that "Arab Spring" that he loved to talk about is working out for him in Egypt. How might he explain that particular foreign policy failure? Who will Obama blame for the guy he supported turning himself into a dictator?

"You know folks, I'll sometimes add a thumb down to a post, when I feel the same way as what another responder has already offered."

Most of the time, I won't down thumb unless I have offered a rebuttal. There were a few exceptions - any comment by Paine and his 20 other monikers and any comment by krschmitzell since most of them are ridiculous anyway (so why wait).

Gary Johnson 2016 - Today at 8:22 AM: "I'm betting all of the down thumbs come from one guy with 5 or 6 monikers who cycles through the monikers clicking away like its a video game."***********************You bring up an interesting point. Who do we know anyone that has multiple monikers and is devious....hmm?

Newster, I like to pick on the thumbs down committee because I also know that most of them probably are not intelligent enough to make a rebuttal. By the way since I did respond to your post, I at least feel obligated to giving you a thumbs down.

Newster - Today at 9:46 AM:"I gave you a thumbs down because I know that it's a touchy subject you like to whine about!"**********************Just curious. Did you put that thumb back in your mouth after you gave it to GJ?

Newster, I gave you a thumbs down because you've totally missed the point.Here's a clue for you (this one's free, LCL can tell you where to go for more) Post a rebuttal. The thubs down is an infantile nod to FaceBooks one shortcoming: It only offers a "like" button.

Everyone who sees the “Lincoln” movie will walk out of the theater fearing a successful American secessionist movement? Just how far-fetched is THAT?

Except, of course, if Mississippi’s Secess County does something rash. I mean: in its unique and extraordinarily influential way.

Then, of course, the dominoes might well fall: other American political units might follow suit. And there would then bee a real problem. Our country would face actual dissolution.

Beecause, as I have already noted, nothing secedes like Secess.

[And there you have it: the difference betwixt the genders. Females (like Sandy) go to see “Lincoln”; males (like me) go to see “The Three Stooges,” a movie that I thoroughly enjoyed. Largely beecause Doris Kearns Goodwin and Bill O’Reilly – or, rather, those who write their stuff -- played no part in its screenplay.]

Timmerman is Milwaukee's version of Cindy Sheehan. He is an anti-war protester that could be seen on various street corners in the Milw area on a regular basis. It appears with the advent of cold weather he has taken up the pen in place of the protest signs.

Leo, It's my opinion that the USA is funding the mechanisms that are both Isreal and Hamas. We give aid to Isreal because it is an ally. We give aid to radical muslim regimes because we want the to be our ally. (they never will) Both side use our money to defend as well as offend the other.My summation to your question is that there is no answer. Don Timmerman's standpoint could be both verified and villified by either side.

There is, I suppose, a gentle irony in our rightists’ fears and suspicions of The New Black Panther Party. You know: of its membership: of those two ominous-looking gents, dressed in fatigues, standing near a polling place, armed with nightsticks or rifles held at “port arms,” and who seem so very watchful.

Well, “irony”, I write, beecause of a complete lack of understanding on their critics’ part as to what those two gents are about. Alas! Their motivation is so very sadly misunderstood.

One must ask: WHY are those two gents there?

It turns out that they are simply two concerned citizens who are looking carefully for would-bee criminals: namely, those whom they might recognize as n’er-do-wells who try to vote twice. And, of course, in order to enforce the provisions of our God-given voting rights, those two guardians exercise their God-given second-amendment right, which undergirds all of our other rights, and which is given to us by God Himself, in our exceptional, God-given land of freedom and equal opportunity.

So, even as an atheist, I cannot help but commend in a most prideful way those two civic-minded gents – those devotees of O’Reilly, Goldberg, Hannity, Miller, and God – with a hardy, “God Bless You, Gentlemen. And God Bless these United States of America."